Walking among us

[Paul]

BBC

The Chief Constable of Merseyside is to write to the Home Secretary condemning a decision to allow a convicted triple child killer to go on day release.
David McGreavy has been allowed to walk around Liverpool unsupervised as part of preparations for his release from Ford Prison in Arundel, West Sussex.
Chief Constable Bernard Hogan-Howe said the decision was a "disgrace" and put children's safety at risk.
McGreavy, 54, was jailed in 1973 for murdering three children in Worcester.
He killed Paul Ralph, aged four, and his sisters Dawn, aged two, and nine-month-old Samantha before impaling their bodies on iron railings.

Let's hope that this one is monitored properly if he does get released

[punky]

How the hell did a triple murderer end up in Ford Open Prison anyway?

And how comes a prisoner in Sussex gets day release to walk around Liverpool? Are they going to drive him there and back every day?

[marky]

Monitored ? yes, by the familys of the kids to see how long it takes his heart to stop, whilst swinging from a rope.

[Paul]

Originally Posted by punky

How the hell did a triple murderer end up in Ford Open Prison anyway?

And how comes a prisoner in Sussex gets day release to walk around Liverpool? Are they going to drive him there and back every day?

You know I didn't believe it till I read it but:

Ford
HMP Ford is a category D training establishment with an emphasis on resettlement.
A former Fleet Air Arm Station, it converted to an open prison in 1960. Further buildings were added including a gate complex, chapel, education and probation.
Accommodation comprises of single and two-person rooms. Two dormitories remain in use, which will be converted by mid 2005.
Governor: Fiona Radford
Accommodation: Dormitory and single room accommodation.
Operational Capacity: 541 as of 10 March 2005
Reception Criteria: Category "D"
Regime: An expanded induction programme is in place supported by the prisoner peer support group (FOCUS). Work opportunities include farms and gardens, vocational work in workshops as well as opportunities for long term prisoners to work in the community on rehabilative and reparation work through the community services department. Education provision includes a wide-range of courses that enable prisoners to gain key vocational and academic qualifications. Specialist Training Services provide a job Club, which offers a full range of job seeking activities and support for all prisoners regardless of their length of sentence. Ford has a prisoner Listener group that provides confidential emotional support to other prisoners.

CAT D, work opportunities, working in the community?? For a 3 times child killer???? WTF is going on here????

[Hom3r]

These people should be plugged in to the AC

Originally Posted by Paul

You know I didn't believe it till I read it but:

CAT D, work opportunities, working in the community?? For a 3 times child killer???? WTF is going on here????

It will be the same old story.

1. Let out.
2. some meddling do gooder says you cannot watch him. So we stop watching him.
3. Kills again.
4. Meddling do gooder now no where to be seen.
5. We say we told you so.
6. He is put away again and a family has to live with the lose of a loved one.


Same again in 6 months after that.

[Ramrod]

Post #7
...he killed them with a razon and curtain wire.....and they are letting him out!

[Chimaera]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Post #7
...he killed them with a razon and curtain wire.....and they are letting him out!

And then impaled them on railings!

[Russ B]

I think a more appropriate title for this thread would have been "slithering among us".

[AndrewJ]

Yeah let him out, lets hope the ****er has the family of the kid he killed waiting with a 12guage.

[andyandy]

Or that he "Falls down the stairs" and is "accidently left by himself with a lynch mob" on his release.

[Nidge]

Originally Posted by Paul

BBC

Let's hope that this one is monitored properly if he does get released

Why don't they let him live on the same street as the chief constable? There will soon be a row brewing when the copper gets a smell of it. Lock the monster up for life.

[Ramrod]

This is part of the problem in this country:

There is no other British institution that operates with the unassailable power that the judiciary wields. Its unelected practitioners are largely untouchable, unaccountable and unpunishable......In the past five years Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, has referred 501 sentences to the Court of Appeal because they were felt to be unfair and in need of adjustment. Although these cases include a range of offences such as rape, people trafficking and street robbery, many involve serious child abuse. Overall, 373 sentences were found by the Court of Appeal to be unduly lenient. In 303 cases sentences were increased. About 70% of sentences were extended in child abuse cases......One vivid recent example concerns the man who received a three-year community rehabilitation order for six counts of indecent assault against his seven-year-old daughter.....a man convicted of raping a 13-month-old baby and possessing indecent images of children received a five-year prison sentence......A rare example of a judge subjecting himself to public grilling was John Gower, who sentenced the paedophile Roy Whiting to four years in 1995 for the sexual assault of a little girl. Although Whiting went on to murder Sarah Payne, having served just over two years, Gower described criticism that the original sentence was too short as “water off a duck’s back�.

I urge you to read the full article.

[Rob]

Interesting, McGreavy was jailed in 1973. He's still inside now, even with this day release bit. That's comforably over 30 years inside. Altough cases like this in my view should have permanent life internment, what chances are there, under today's lax sentencing that he'd have stayed inside this long?

[Maggy J]

Please remember that the judiciary do have to work within guidelines.They do not make the rules and have to work within the parameters set however much they may like to impose heavier sentences.If they don't they may find themselves 'pushed' out of the job or the majority of their cases may be sent to the court of appeal.